Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 23, Decatur, Adams County, 6 February 1903 — Page 3

TIME TABLES G. R. & I. (In effect Septefnber 88, 1902) TRAINS NORTH, Nr> * -Daily 1:30 a m No ' Daily (except Sunday).... 3-17 ~ n . No I—Daily (except Sunday ... M:(X> ani TRAINS SOUTH. '• No 8-Dally (except Sunday t-n p n , ■> 12- Dally (except Sunday, 17 a in No 0-Dally 12 : 25 a I CLOVER LEAF. EAST. No o—Commercial Traveler, dally... 5:25 an. No 2 Mall, dally, except Sunday. 12 .> p„i No 4 -Day Express, daby MS uni NC W-Local Freight 1:10am WEST. No 11-Day Express, daily .... 5:25 am No 1-Mail. dally, except Sunday . 11 ; 25a m 6—Commercial Traveler, dally .. it 27 No 23-Local Freight 12:05 p ra CHICAGO & ERIE. in effect September 22, 1902. WEST. Np 7 Express, daily, except Sunday. 2 22am NB B—New York and Boston Limited . through coach Columbus and ; .K Chicago 12:2“ pm No 13—Wells Fargo Express. 5 12 p m No H—Marion-Huntington Acc'm. 7.42 p m EAST No 8- Vestibule Limited tor N Y 2:22 a ni NO 22 -Cleveland and Columbus H:ssam No 1 -New York and Boston Limited K through coaches Columbus BT and Chicago ... .3:2lpm No H—Huntingt’n-Meadvllle Expr’s --20 p m MIBS Anna Sellcmeyer was the guest of Fort Wayne friends today. M ra. E. L. Carroll will lie the guest of Fort Wayne friends for a few days. •C C. Schug of Berne, was in the city last evening en route to Fort Wayne. ■M Fuhrman returned to Willshire last weuing. He was in the city yes terday. ■Rev. H. N. Allen returned last ev enmg from a several days business trip to Fort Wayne. ■Mrs. Martin Lord of Monmouth, is in the citv the guest of her sister. Mrs. William Blackburn. ■ Barney Myers went to Fort Wayne last night where ho will be the guest of his sister, Mrs. Havel. ■C. M. France returned from Port lai d last night where he has been for a few days on business. ■ Mrs. R. Jones, of Bryant, returned to her home this morning, after a visit wish relatives in this city. ■ Nick Miller returned from Grand Bapids, Mich., last night, where he had been attending to business. ■ Mrs. L. Slater, of Fort Wayne, who has lieen visiting her parents at Preble, returned to her home this morning. KN. Nelson returned to his home at Williams this morning, after attendbg to business in this city yesterday. iW. Wilson arrived in the city this Korning from Geneva, and will trans•et business of importance during the ■J. P. Ray returned to his home at Pleasant Mills last night, after looking up business interests near this «tv E Miss Margaret Conter left for Fort Kayne last evening where she will ■eke a visit with her sister, Mrs. T. Armld. teg Mrs. Fred Schafer went to Fort Wayne this morning, where where she Wil. have her eyes treated by Dr. Btdlson. ■“A Home Spun Heart” show com-1 ■np went to Portland this morning, wb ?re they will hold down the boards J i8 h.. ■“Vince” Sprague and son, James, Nfent to Fort Wayne this morning, jwli jre the bov will take his week I v ■eatment for hip trouble. Edith and Dollie Penning- : ton returned to Fort Wayne last •yening after a weeks visit with their ■rente, Mr. and Mrs. H. Pennington. ■ B Major passed through the city, 185 evening on his way home to j Killshire from Portland, where he Wa looking after business in that Bty yesterday. ■ Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ray of near ■ouroe, arrived in the city last evening on their way to Bluffton, where tht y will visit relatives and friends , fer a short time.

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Al Graham arrived horns from Linn urove last evening. James Hurst, of Pierson, transacted business here today. I. L. Aspy, of Genevif was in the city today attending to business. B. Aguert of Berne is in the citv today looking up business matters. A. M. Larkins and wife will visit relatives at Peterson for a few days. Dick Towmind of the Burt is a b tsmess visitor at Fort Wayne today. E. Buckman, of Hoagland is visitrelatives ami friends in the city today. J J- R. Lenhart, of Allen county, will visit friends for a few davs at Frankfort. Lenard Troutner, of Pleasant Mills, was iu the city today visiting his sister a short time. Mrs. S. Oswalt wont to Huntington this noon where she will visit her sister who is quite siek. C ■ I ague, of Pleasant Mills, returned to his home this noon having been shopping in this eity. I'. Eaton of Willshire, returned to Lis home this noon after visiting with relatives near this city. Mrs. C. L. Dibble returned to her home at Markle after visiting relatives in this eity and vicinity. Jacob Atz. left the eity this morning j for Berne where will look after his 1 business in that locality. E. S. Deam of Bloomington, Illi- ! nois, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Rose this morning. Jesst'Ball returned to his home at Berne this afternoon after visiting relatives and friends iu this city. J. Briner arrived in the city this morning from Hoagland and will be a business visitor here today. Mr. and Mrs. E. Brown of Willshire, returned home last evening, after visiting friends in this city. V\. S. Smith returned to his home at Monroe this morning after transacting business yesterday at Bobo. R. E. Smith, of Pleasant Mills, returned to his home last evening, after attending business here yesterday. James Rice went to Bluffton this morning to bring home a load of horses which he bought at that placa. Miss Burt Atz returned to her home at Willshire last evening, after making a short visit with friends in this ■ city • R. C. Drummond returned to the eity this afternoon after looking up the Metropolitan insurance business in Bluffton. Rev. T. A Allen, of Fort Wayne, returned home this morning after 1 conducting services at the Christian I church in this city. H. Stein returned to his home at Pleasant Mills this uoon after looking up business in the interest of his firm near Pleasant Mills. Mrs. M. Strouten of Fort Wayne returned to her home last evening, after an extended visit with relatives and friends in this city. John Haven, of Warren, was in the city a short time this morning on his way to Fort Wayne where he will begin work in the shops in that city next Monday. Joshua Bright and son Thomas left the city this morning for Portland where they will visit relatives and friends and attend to business matters for several days The Patterson flouring mill is shut down for repairs and a half dozen workmen are busy putting up a brand new smoke stack. Everything will be in running order in a day or so. L. G. Ellingham and wife returned from Indianapolis this afternoon, where they have been for several days attending the winter meeting of the Democratic Editorial association. The Erie R. R. maehanists. stationed at Huntington, who have been out on a strike for some time, iu all probability, will return tomorrow. Satisfactory concessions have beeujmade by the employers and peace for some lime to eouie will certainly lie secur ed.

Homer Andrews, of Peterson, was in town today. A. Vancamp made a business trip to Swazee today. D. F. Morse was a business visitor in this city today. Hulda Crist returned to her home at Monroe today. A. R. Brandyberry, of Monroe, transacted business hero today. A. J. Smith returned from a business trip at Fort Wayne today. Mr and Mrs. E. L. Carroll, who | have been visiting at Fort Wayne, re- | timed home today. Little Diek Burdg, who has been ■ quite sick for several days is reported ■ as a little bettor today. Jonas Neuenschwander, and wife of Berne returned home today after a i several days visit in the city". ’Squire Reynolds will leave for Manon, Indiana, tomorrow morning, j where he will visit for a few days. | Mrs. V. Johnson of Berne returned 'to her home this -morning, after a j visit with relatives here a few days. Mrs. C. H. Archer of Spencerville, 1 arrived in the city this afternoon and ' will make a short visit with friends in this eity. Rev. Fred Reinking of Napoleon, : Ohio, has returned to his homo, after | a several days’ visit with relatives m this city. Ex Trustee Freeh of Union town ship, a fine old citizen by the way, was transacting business iu town today. Will Winans who is attending the International Business College at Fort Wayne will Sunday with his parents. Bert Annen, of Kewanee. Ind., arrived in the city this morning and will make a visit with his brother, Frank Annen. Mrs. Maggio Dttland and daughter, Naomi, of Monroe, returned home this morning, after visiting friends here yesterday. Mrs. Robert Gray and two children of Delphos, Ohio, are making an extended visit with J. H. Smith and family east of the city. The Friday Night club will be’entertained this evening by Misses Ger trude and Leona DeVoss at their home on Monroe street.

Mr. and Mrs. Z. O. Lewellen returned to their home this morning, after visiting with Mr and Mrs. Henry Laughry for several days. A. F. Thieme, one of the l>est natured citizens of Union township, was I in town this morning long enough to plank down the cash for his Democrat. A nine pound boy made its appearance at the home of John C. Scheiman, south of the city, last night. Mother and babe are getting along nicely. Mrs. John Tisron returned to her home in the city from Bluffton this ! afternoon where she has been visiting her sister and other relatives for several days. R. S. Peterson returned to the city this noon from Marion, where he has been looking after business pertaining to the new law firm of Kersey, Peter , son & France. Tise Ullman received a thorough bred Poland China hog from Odessa, Ohio today. It certainly pays to deal in blooded' stock and Mr. Ullman realizes that fact. Mrs. W. W. P. McMillen informs us that one of the ladies whoattended the, social at her home a few days ago left a black silk boa there and the owner can have same by calling. Earl Peters, who has been confined to his bed for a month with pneumonia. is again able to be about. Earl was in a very serious condition and several times his recovery was very uncertain. The bus team stole a march on their driver Chas. Meiber this morning, and started out on a little jaunt about town. They were caught, however after a little race before any possible damage could be done. The gas situation is one of those measlev subjects that won't admit of discussion without cussing. And, damitifwehaveyetthoughtofaword that will adequately express our feelings on the subject. Perhaps it is just as well that we can't think along that line or we'd bust the gas company wide open. Willshire Herald. The trap-drummer, a long-felt want has been added to the Hart Orchestra, and that musical body is now pre pared to bump up against any similai organization in the state. Fred Mayer manipulates the instruments and by the several difficult selections rendered ul the opera house last night, he proved himself as perfectly familiar and an artist in that line of work and was quite a surprise to our theatre-going people. The Name of Stebbins. The Stebbins family is fulrly (turnerous. It 1» not now n classic mime. Its owners wear It Ignorantly. More the shame tor them. It Is by right a classic name, borne ns It was by the first es Christian martyrs —St Steven, some times spelled Stephen. Steven is the Dutch way of spelling It. Spell It In Spanish Esteban. Drop the initial si Sent "e." and then you have Steban. Among the ignorant the step to Stebbins Is very short. And the honorable name of St. Steven takes on degradation even as the fine old Norman French Mint D'Aubalne becomes the homely Dobbins.

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ALLIGATORS AS BOATMATES Experience With One That Had Been Apparently Killed. Alligators move rapidly under water, are hard to see. harder to hit, and the harpoon will penetrate only the least accessible portions of the body. Nor does the title the hide necessarily pass with making fast the weapon. One afternoon in the Cheesehowitzkee river I harpooned a large alligator which towed me up and down the stream for an hour or two and then sulked in its deepest part. I pulled on the line until the boat was directly over him and stirred him up with the harpoon pole. He rolled himself up on the line in the manner peculiar to sharks and alligators mid banged the boat suggestively. We rowed to the bank and, making fast to some bushes, hauled on the line until we succeeded in worrying him nearly to the boat, when be rose to the surface and attacked us with open mouth. We repelled the attack with harpoon pole and rifle. The former was promptly bitten in three pieces, but the latter apparently finished him. It was so nearly dark that we decided to carry him in the skiff a mile down the river to where our sloop was anchored. We broke the seats out of the boat mid together managed to lift the head of the alligator aboard and tie it. We then tied the other end. when the reptile came to life and landed a blow with his tail which lifted me out of the sktff into the saw grass, with the breath knocked out of my body and my hand and face badly cut by the grass. Boat aud boatmen were capsized. As my rifle had fortunately been left upon the bank, I was able to kill thp alligator again. We secured him by floating the boat under him mid then bailing it out. The alligator completely filled £e boat, so that my companion and I sat upon his buck ns we paddled down the river with gunwales unpleasantly near the water. It was growing dark, and the water around us was becoming alive with alligators. While we were reflecting upon our overloaded condition our alligator came to life again and shifted ballast until water poured over the gunwale. We quickly balanced the boat, only to see it again disturbed and to ship more water. A scramble for tbe shore fallowed, which we readied without capsizing mid where we left our victim for the night after again killing him. In the morning our buzzard friend from the Homosassa river, surrounded by his family, was sitting above him in the tree waiting for u; to attend to our carving duties Country Life In America. Suit Against Automobilist. South Bend. Ind.. Feb '. Susan Ornet vs tills city Ims sued W It McIntyre of Auburn for SB,OOO damages. She says her horse was frightened by the banker s automobile, ran away, and she was badly injured. BRIEF DISPATCHES A strike ot Western ti-sinnu-u lx threst-me<t The condition ot former --rictary J.ilm I>. Look show* marked iniprovenu-nu Webb Lsmpkin. ot I’ll riot, Ind., killed him aeltuu a steamboat near Petersburg, K>, A Weaver lathe Knoxville cotton inille ■hot bis wife ot a tew month* mid killed hlmselt. The ordinance tgrautlng the Wabash railroad the right to enter Pittsburg ha* been stgiie-i and Is now a las The French torpedo boat destroyer Ktplngnolo has foundered in is fathom* of walei of! t ape tardier, about thirty miles caul of Toulon The United States quarantlni) official* have dct-lared Manila to be free from cholera thus ending the quarantine which ha> latte.l nearly a year Chicago w»< completely itolated from telegraph oerviee Wednesday, the heavy ■lent storm having canned wire* to break In hundreds of places. The three negroes charged with the «liootlng of John B. Farrow. In Fleming county, have been removed from Maysville to Covington to prevent a lynching. Senator ljuay le ooafldent that the statehood rider to the agrionltural appropriation bill will pan. In tbo meantime legislation la blocked aad au satra session threatened.

THE FISH SIIIGEON. OPERATIONS WHICH HE PERFORMS UPON HIS PATIENTS. Knife end Slienre Arc I eed. and the Fteh May Be Kept Out of Water From Five to Seven Minutes—How Medicines Are Administered. The fish doctor, like the regular doctor, gives medicine, performs surgical operations and superintends his patients’ diet and environment. These are the principal operations which lie performs: Trimming the fish’s tail with fish shears when fungous growths enlarge it; stripping the fish to remove she eggs or milt that have not been naturally deposited; excising with the lance tumors, lacerated scales and splinters of bone. Among the medicines that the fish doctor gives are castor oil for swelling of the swimming bladder and mix votnJea for debility and emaciation. This specialist also presides over the food of the fish, inspects their food troughs thoroughly and makes microscopic examinations of their water to see that it contains the proper life giving elements in their due proportions. Regarding these matters, which are as important to healthy as to sick fish, the leading fish doctor of Philadelphia recently said: “A food trough of enameled ware that will not rust should be used for fish. At the same time each day their oatmeal should be put in this trough, which should always be kept in the same place, and as a consequence of this treatment the fish will gather around their trough at mealtime, which they will instinctively recognize, as greedily as hogs, burying their noses in the food when it is set before them and crowding and pushing eno another in a healthy, ravenous and hoglike manner. The trough should be gleaned once a day lest it get sour, but the water of the fish should t arely be changed. Even when it becomes foul smelling it should only be changed gradually—a quart a day. say—for to change it all at once ba s th* effi t ot a I posure—is, indeed, the same ns if you should snatch a child from its warm bed aud lay it naked out of doors in the cold night wind and snow.” It is not the detention of fish from their native element that makes tish surgery difficult, for they can be kept out of the water for five, six and seven minutes without the slightest harm to th in. and there is no operation that requires a longer space of time. But what makes it difficult is the disinclination ot the flesh to heal after it has been cut. A wound to heal requires to be dry. Nothing Is more deleterious to it than any sort of moisture, and hence the troubles of a fish wound bathed and soaked in water till the time. Inevitably. therefore, tish operations arc simple and slight. One of them is tin- trimming of tails enlarged to unwieldiness by growths <it fungus, work sharp shears, with blades oddly curved fish shears—uro employed. The fish is lifted from the water and held bead downward while ils tail is being trimmed. A dexterous operator gets through the work in two or three minutes. There is no flow of blood mid no gaping wound that will not heal; hence tall trimming Is In nine eases out of ten successful. It must be resorted to often with Japanese goldfish, for these costly and graceful creatures with their resemblance to strange golden flowers, have tails bigger than their bodies, mid when their tails, ns frequently happens, become affected with fungus, they are unable to swim well, and sometimes, indeed, they drown. A fish “drowns” technically when, flouting with its head out of the water, it dies from asphyxiation. The knife Is used on fish to remove tumors or lacerated scales or splintered bones, which, unc.fclsed, would cause

the fish’s death. Lacerations of the scales are oniy treated when they are so severe that the fish without treatment would surely die. This operation is successful in about 70 per cent of the cases. The remaining 30 per cent die because their wounds do not heal. Stripping is an operation resorted to when, in the breeding season, the tish. through some malady or other, does not deposit naturally its eggs or its milt. The patient in this operation is held with the left hand while with the right a firm pressure is exerted along its sides from the breast down to the tail. Stripping is the least dangerous of all the operations in fish surgery. Admirable results are obtained by dosing fisb with medicines. Castor oil. for swelling of the swimming bladder. Is a remedy that seldom fails. A fish’s dose of castor oil is one drop, diluted slightly. The liquid may lie administered either with a spoon or with a quill toothpiffi. The process in each case is similar. The tish is held in an erect position. Its head well up, and the drippings from the toothpick or the contents of the spoon are directed into its mouth. Sometimes they flow forth again through the gills, and in this event the dose must be repeated. A swollen swimming bladder is a frequent and dangerous ailment of captive fish. Under it they become extremely corpulent and unwieldy. At length they turn over and float on their backs. Finally they die. But in nine cases out of ten one dose of castor oil cures this disease In a day. Fish often lose appetites, become thin and weak [ and apathetic. Their trouble then is ! stomachic, aud nux vomica, with them i as witli human beings, affords quick | relief. A drop of dilute nux vomica , will bring back a fish’s appetite, restore its weight and make it active and ( cheerful..—New York Tribune. LONDON IS AGITATED Britons Do Not Relish Turn Venezuelan Affairs Have Taken. London. Feb. '.—The turn Venezuelan affairs have taken, which puts Great Britain in the position of being the leader and spokesman of the allies. is not relished by tho British nation The feeling again#* um government for getting the countrv into such a muss, as l.<;rd t’ranborm I. ril. I it, is increasing. It i- realiz* I eve. ■ r-t ■' haps in government circles, that a continuance or the present conditions is a serious,menace to the good rein tlons between Great Britain and th-> United States, it might be fairly said that the allies now feel the absolute necessity of forcing from Venezuela at least some apparent concession Officially it Is pointed out that .the powers have now conceded everything they are willing to grant, so fat as thtime, tht amtainf payments are concerned. The ministers of the three governments feel they cannot go before their countrymen admitting that they did not even secure separate consideration fortheir claims. Rather than do so Germany is in favor of letting the whole question go to The Hague cc rt. Great Britain Is inclined to support this determination, feeling that the outcome at The Hague could not lie worse than the effect of a complete backdown at this stag* of the proceedings. Germany Is Disappointed. Berlin. Feb.,!.- Some disappointment is felt by the German foreign office officials at Minister Bowen’s a’tittide In bis conference with the ambassadors at Washington. Mr. Bowen. It Is said here, impresses the representatives of the allies as allowing his fighting spirit to overbear bls desires for a peaceful settlement. Hit demeanor at the conferences Is described as that of an advocate defending an innocent, persecuted client.